Category: Microservices

Articles about microservices. Architecture, tutorials, opinions- everything that may help you succeed and learn. I strongly believe that the future of backend development lays with highly decoupled microservices oriented architectures.

With Spring Boot 2.0 release just around the corner (at the time of writing we have RC1) it is important to see what changes it brings. Even if you are not planning to migrate shortly, it is good to see what is new in this biggest Spring Boot release since the 1.0 version. In this blog post I won’t go through every detail, but cover the most important things.Continue reading “What you need to know about Spring Boot 2.0 (RC1)”

Message queues are very important and useful tools that you can utilize for your Microservices oriented architecture. Many developers are hesitant using them with the fear that they may add too much complexity and learning curve to the understanding of their system. I will show you how to make use of RabbitMQ and Spring Cloud Stream to get some basic messaging routes set-up with a very little effort!

Microservices are gaining popularity and more developers end up working with them. If you are a developer who is going to work with microservices architecture, or an employer who is looking to hire someone- what are the most important skills for microservices developer to posses? Read on to find out.

A lot of people want to start working with Microservices and don’t quite know where to start. I remember being there- finding that my next project is going to use microservices architecture and I should get familiar with it. Of course, I heard about microservices before and I have read some blog posts, but I felt that my knowledge had major gaps. If you are in this situation- worry no more! Just get yourself a copy of “Building Microservices” by Sam Newman and read it! Continue to find out more why I think this book has you covered.Continue reading “Starting with Microservices: Read “Building Microservices””

If you are interested in building Microservices in the JVM ecosystem- you have to check out Spring Cloud. Spring Cloud is a project which goal is to make Microservices architecture and patterns simple and practical to use. Spring Boot provides opinionated way of making a Microservice, Spring Cloud gives you an opinionated framework for getting your architecture around them.

It seems that just recently majority of server-side development was done with some flavor of Enterprise Java. Who can forget J2EE, or JEE, writing all these JSP, JSF and Struts applications. It also feels that over the past few years there is less and less happening in that space. New projects are regularly picking alternative technologies and release and the release of JEE 8 did not have the same impact as Spring Boot or Microservices in general. Microprofile is an attempt to change that. Microprofile is the Enterprise Java answer to Microservices.Continue reading “Java Enterprise and Microservices – meet Microprofile!”

If you want to get into microservices development, you will want to run multiple things on your machine. Having services, databases, message brokers etc. all working on your machine without conflicts may be very difficult. Docker solves this problem beautifully.

This is beginning of the series of blog posts where I will introduce and explain different tools and frameworks that are useful in microservices development. It is difficult to start such a series without introducing Spring Boot!

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